ABSTRACT
In 1923, Rose Davies, a Labour Party activist in the Rhondda, wrote in notes for a speech that:
Woman has come into power just when all the world movements and questions concern her most vitally – and here is her opportunity. Looked at from the broad standpoint of humanity as a whole all the questions of the hour bear on women’s special function, the Care of Life … all these problems need to be penetrated and solved by her highest ideals for the good of the individual and the whole … the greatest call of today is for Love not Hate, Life not Death, and it is to that call that the True spirit of woman always answers.1
